Reports inform that as many as five COVID-19
positive passengers fled after arriving at the Delhi airport from the UK on December 22, a
report by The Indian Express said. The passengers managed to escape despite standard
operating procedures (SOPs) issued by the Union Health Ministry for people travelling
from the UK.
According to the report, three of the five passengers were traced and
admitted to Lok Nayak hospital in Delhi, while two others -- one who managed to reach
Andhra Pradesh and another who had reached Ludhiana in Punjab.
According to a report by Moneycontrol, one of the five passengers, a 46-year-old man,
managed to leave the Delhi airport unnoticed and reach Ludhiana. He checked himself
into a private hospital and two his wife and nephew were also isolated. The report further
informs that all the five passengers had arrived in Delhi from London on board an Air India
flight and had tested positive on arrival.
Earlier in the day, a tweet by ANI said that an Anglo-Indian woman, who had reached
Delhi from the UKon December 21 and had tested positive for COVID-19, managed to
flee from the isolation centre. The woman fled an isolation centre in Delhi and reached
Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh by a train. The woman has now been traced and placed
under isolation in Rajahmundry, officials said on Thursday.
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